In the first three parts of this series we discussed topics related to defining, identifying, and quantifying
technical...
0 replies - 4809 views - 01/16/11 by Ted Theodoropoulos in Articles
There are two key components to the technical debt equation:
principal and interest. Quantifying both the principal owed and the
interest payments being...
0 replies - 5322 views - 01/15/11 by Ted Theodoropoulos in Articles
We discussed the process of defining technical debt in a previous article
which outlines some important items that should...
1 replies - 5499 views - 01/14/11 by Ted Theodoropoulos in Articles
Know any good quote about software development? Agile? Lean? Teams? Code? or anything else in this space?I’m
working on a little project and I need some...
1 replies - 1362 views - 12/22/10 by Allan Kelly in News
Recently Apple announced that it was deprecating its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) implementation. Ten years after promising to "make the Mac the best Java...
11 replies - 6652 views - 11/03/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
We've developed a few designs for a poster featuring the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Principles of Agile Software.We'd like your help in picking the best...
9 replies - 8771 views - 11/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Can we please put the whole term “Best Practices” to rest now? Apparently, according to this link
(forwarded to me by John Dietz, thanks!), the very...
18 replies - 25324 views - 08/10/10 by Ted Neward in News
Over the weekend, there was a tweet announcing that Google was going
to provide “scholarships” to qualified women to attend JSConf.eu. There
was then a...
3 replies - 4686 views - 07/28/10 by Rebecca Murphy in News
When I went to university, most of our programming tests and projects
where evaluated based on our grasp of various algorithms for sorting,
tree traversal,...
11 replies - 9031 views - 07/26/10 by Wille Faler in News
One of my favourite patterns from Ade Oshineye and Dave Hoover's 'Apprenticeship
Patterns' is 'Be
the worst' which is described as follows:
Surround...
0 replies - 606 views - 07/19/10 by Mark Needham in News
Laurie Williams, a professor at North Carolina State University,
recently conducted a survey to find out which principles and...
1 replies - 2774 views - 07/14/10 by Mike Cohn in News
David Flanagan doesn't seem to think so. The programming consultant and writer for O'Reilly Media shared some frustrating observations about the lack of...
0 replies - 20712 views - 05/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Just for the record: your certification, the one you paid four
figures for, is meaningless.
Sure, it might mean something to an employer somewhere, but...
8 replies - 4990 views - 04/05/10 by James Shore in News
In programming there's an old saying that goes like this:
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your
code will be a violent psychopath who...
1 replies - 7909 views - 04/02/10 by Giorgio Sironi in News
We’re all tied together by things we do. Projects we work on,
conferences we go to as a whole team, even bugs we fix together,
problems we solve together....
0 replies - 1408 views - 01/21/10 by Olga Kouzina in Articles
